[agents] Final CfP: Coordination Models, Languages and Applications - CM track at ACM SAC 2015

Thu Aug 28 03:44:25 EDT 2014

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                                       Coordination Models, Languages 
and Applications
                           Special Track of the 30th ACM Symposium on 
Applied Computing (SAC'15)
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http://sac2015.apice.unibo.it/ -

                                                            April 13 - 
17, 2015
Salamanca, Spain

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Building on the success of the fifteenth previous editions (1998-2014), 
a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will 
be held at SAC 2015. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the 
emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent 
and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of 
coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the 
integration of a number of possibly heterogeneous components (processes, 
objects, agents, services) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can 
execute as a whole, forming a distributed software system with desired 
characteristics and functionalities. This is done in terms of 
coordination abstractions, languages, algorithms, mechanisms, and 
middleware specifically focused on the management of component interaction.
The coordination paradigm crosscuts a number of contemporary software 
engineering approaches and fields, which we aim to cross-fertilize and 
bring contribution to, including in particular: multi-agent systems, 
self-adaptative and self-organising systems, service-oriented 
architectures, component-based systems, and all related middleware 
platforms.
The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications 
takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination. 
Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include:

     - Novel models, languages, formalisms, programming and 
implementation techniques
     - Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures
     - Applications
     - Middleware platforms
     - Formal aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification)
     - Software architectures and software engineering techniques
     - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, 
intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations
     - Internet, Web, and pervasive computing systems coordination
     - Languages for service description and composition
     - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making
     - All aspects related to Cooperative Information Systems (e.g. 
workflow management, CSCW)
     - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages
     - Self-organising, self-adaptive and nature-inspired coordination 
approaches
     - Relationship with other computational models such as object 
oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or 
their extensions with coordination capabilities
     - Coordination models and specification in Service-Oriented 
Architectures, Web Service technologies (orchestration, choreography, 
etc),Pervasive Computing and Autonomic Computing
     - Policy-based approaches to coordination and self-adaptation

We also welcome papers on practical systems or novel applications that 
are aimed at reaching coordination between components and services, 
especially if those systems and novel applications challenge existing 
ideas and models.

In previous editions, CM Special Track organisers have been inviting 
authors of selected papers for special issues in high impact journals, 
such as, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) and 
Science of Computer Programming (SCP).

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    Important Dates
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      Sept 12, 2014: Paper submission
      Nov 17, 2014: Author notification
      Dec 8, 2014: Camera-Ready Copy
      Dec 15 2014: Author Registration

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    Program Co-Chairs
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Mirko Viroli
     Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita' di Bologna
http://mirkoviroli.apice.unibo.it
     email: mirko.viroli at unibo.it

Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez
     University of Geneva
http://www.cui.unige.ch/~fernajos/
     email: joseluis.fernandez at unige.ch

Francesco Tiezzi
     IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
http://www.imtlucca.it/francesco.tiezzi
     email: francesco.tiezzi at imtlucca.it

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    Program Committee Members
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Farhad Arbab, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, Netherlands
Jake Beal, BBN Technologies, USA
Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy
Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Rocco De Nicola, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, Scotland
eva Kuhn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Hung La, Rutgers University, USA
Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark
Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
Manuel Oriol, University of York, UK
Antonio Porto, University of Porto, Portugal
Rosario Pugliese, University of Firenze, Italy
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Michael Ignaz Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Yasuyuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Giuseppe Valetto, Drexel University, USA
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, UK
Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK
George Wells, Rhodes University, South Africa
Danny Weyns, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

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    Proceedings
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Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages 
and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2015 
proceedings and in the Digital Library.

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    Paper submission and format
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All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works 
that currently are not under review in any conference or journal.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the 
paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to 
facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first 
page without the author's information.
Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in the ACM 
two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). It 
will be possible to have up to 2 extra pages in the proceeding at a 
charge of $80 per page (total 8 pages maximum).
Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the 
paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy 
attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the 
paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of 
scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the 
ACM/IEEE digital library.
Submission is entirely automated via the STAR Submission System, which 
is available from the main SAC Web Site: 
https://www.softconf.com/d/sac2015/.

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    Poster Sessions
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Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer 
standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited 
for the poster session. Poster should be not longer than 2 pages plus 1 
extra page at $80. The poster session procedures and details will be 
posted on SAC 2015 website as soon as they become available.

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    Student research abstracts competition
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Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (minimum of 
2-page and maximum of 4-page) following the instructions published at 
SAC 2015 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is 
not allowed.